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London Metropolitan Archives

BRIDGEN FAMILY


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/0371

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: BRIDGEN FAMILY

Date(s): 1756-1878

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.6 linear metres.

Name of creator(s): Various.

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Adelaide House was built in 1828 on the west side of Forty Green at a time when the area was fashionable. The house has since been destroyed. Forty Green is now known as Forty Hill.

The Bridgen Hall estate was situated between Carterhatch Lane and Goat Lane. It was sold in 1868 and was divided between a housing estate, gravel digging, and open parkland.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Documents relating to Bridgen Hall Estate and Adelaide House Estate, Forty Hill, Enfield; including lease and releases; fines; wills; mortgages; bonds; agreements; conveyances; admittances; copies from court rolls; and other title deeds and legal documents relating to property ownership.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

ACC/0371/001-059: Bridgen Hall Estate. ACC/0371/060-114: Adelaide House Estate.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.

Physical characteristics:

Fit

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Records gifted in August 1950.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note:

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: January to May 2011.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Conveyances (documents) | Title deeds | Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Court rolls | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Leases (documents) | Title deeds | Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Property ownership | Civil law | Legal systems | Law
Property transfer | Property
Releases (documents) | Title deeds | Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Right to property | Civil and political rights | Human rights
Property law x Right to property

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
Forty Hill | Enfield | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
London